Giuseppe Sabbatini

Giuseppe Sabbatini (born 11 May 1957 in Rome, Italy) is a lyric tenor, conductor, and double-bassist.

His opera repertoire includes Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Don Giovanni, Linda di Chamounix, La favorita, L'elisir d'amore, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Lucrezia Borgia, Dom Sébastien, I puritani, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Falstaff, La Bohème, Eugene Onegin, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Werther, Manon, Thaïs, La Damnation de Faust, Benvenuto Cellini, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Orphée aux Enfers, Les Pêcheurs de Perles and Gounod's Faust.

Sabbatini made his acclaimed debut in the USA in February 2001, at the New York Metropolitan Opera, singing the leading tenor role in Massenet's Manon.

A recording is commercially available of a TV presentation of a 1993 Tokyo Boheme with Daniela Dessì as Mimi.

At a concert in Japan in 2006, he played the double bass on "the elephant" from the Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, with the accompaniment of conductor Nicola Luisotti on piano.